Students will retell the 1911 fire through eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, performing locally Tuesday, Jan. 20, before competing Thursday, Jan. 22, in Brainerd.
Today marks the 100-year anniversary of one of the nation’s worst industrial calamities, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Garment workers, 146 in all, mostly young immigrant women, perished in ...
Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...